I wouldn't say that either :)

No reason? Ever see a little film called "Cocktail"?

Yeah, me either.

You really think it's going to stop them from killing people to get what they want? It'd only embolden them.

It's not like Russia is relying on highly valuable lives to them. And they clearly don't care about lives of the other side.

What can they give in exchange for their land?

"How can we make them pay for something that was stolen from them?"

I suppose it truly is a capitalist approach...

So not really the flights themselves, just the regulation overseeing the flights.

Or it's a minor cameo or end scene credit that doesn't really affect the plot in any meaningful way.

Oh man, if only allusion was a literary concept. Wild, right?

The clip clearly shows him not thinking on his feet that well, he's just reacting to something his PR team had probably been trying to drill into him for years, but mid-sentence. Treating it as "quick-thinking" is vastly overstating it.

I can't speak to the details of their individual shittiness as i intentionally avoided it cause it was all very dumb celebrity gossip, but Depp was specifically dropped from every franchise he was a part of well before the American over-hyping happened. Hard to petition that someone be boycott when no one is hiring him anyway.

They're both trash people who tried to use the other to make themselves look better.

In the end they both came out covered in shit.

Much like any way to get ahead in capitalism: pure unadulterated luck.

One could still call that a brainfart, speaking before he knew what he was saying. Just a more normal human reaction rather than the tailored mass-market messaging most politicians try to deliver.